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About UNECA

In its 50 years of existence, UNECA has created and holds a vast quantity of information and
Knowledge in a variety of formats, including printed and electronic. These represent the
corporate memory, providing historical evidence of its actions and decisions. The
information resources include published materials such as flagship publications, journal
articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, mission reports, annual reports, working
papers, speeches and other grey literature, all which outline important research or decisions
that have been made on the economic and social developmental aspects in Africa.
The ECA Institutional Repository of the Economic Commission for Africa offers unique
knowledge and information not available elsewhere pertaining to regional programmes,
decisions and resolutions promoting social and economic development in Africa.

Since its implementation, various enhancements have been added on the ECA IR, including
Software upgrades as well as developments to overcome challenges of repository
development and sharing of content in low bandwidth areas such as Africa. One significant
development is that of ECA IR replicates or mirrors to enable participation by the Sub
Regional Offices (SROs) of ECA in the five regions of Africa namely, SRO-Eastern Africa in
Kigali - Rwanda, SRO - Central Africa in Yaoundé - Cameroon, SRO-West Africa in Niamey -
Niger, SRO Southern Africa in Lusaka - Zambia and SRO Northern Africa in Rabat - Morocco.
The replication project implemented in 2012 in collaboration with @mire Company,
a leading Dspace Committer was necessary to overcome the bandwidth challenges across the African
continent as it facilitates offline update of content and synchronization of data across the 6
sites of the Economic Commission for Africa.